Kate Leinbaugh
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So this is where things started to kind of get out of the bank's hands because the bank had, you know, essentially been trying to silence these findings and this report.
So this is where things started to kind of get out of the bank's hands because the bank had, you know, essentially been trying to silence these findings and this report.
So this is where things started to kind of get out of the bank's hands because the bank had, you know, essentially been trying to silence these findings and this report.
And the reports were pretty different because the Neil Brofsky report was 205 pages. It had a lot of information about what he'd found. Credit Suisse report was much shorter. And the Credit Suisse position was essentially, OK, he did find some things, but this doesn't really move on the historical record. It's pretty much what we knew already.
And the reports were pretty different because the Neil Brofsky report was 205 pages. It had a lot of information about what he'd found. Credit Suisse report was much shorter. And the Credit Suisse position was essentially, OK, he did find some things, but this doesn't really move on the historical record. It's pretty much what we knew already.
And the reports were pretty different because the Neil Brofsky report was 205 pages. It had a lot of information about what he'd found. Credit Suisse report was much shorter. And the Credit Suisse position was essentially, OK, he did find some things, but this doesn't really move on the historical record. It's pretty much what we knew already.
And he gets dug in again with a team. UBS devoted resources to it. So there was something like 50 or more people working on this. And Neil Brofsky was also able to hire his own forensic accountants and his own historians and so forth to really sort of look at their work that was being done. So at this point, he had sort of fresh support for his efforts there.
And he gets dug in again with a team. UBS devoted resources to it. So there was something like 50 or more people working on this. And Neil Brofsky was also able to hire his own forensic accountants and his own historians and so forth to really sort of look at their work that was being done. So at this point, he had sort of fresh support for his efforts there.
And he gets dug in again with a team. UBS devoted resources to it. So there was something like 50 or more people working on this. And Neil Brofsky was also able to hire his own forensic accountants and his own historians and so forth to really sort of look at their work that was being done. So at this point, he had sort of fresh support for his efforts there.
And he also had the Senate Budget Committee behind him saying, please leave no stone unturned.
And he also had the Senate Budget Committee behind him saying, please leave no stone unturned.
And he also had the Senate Budget Committee behind him saying, please leave no stone unturned.
And so he found something like there were, you know, thousands of boxes full of files. And in those files, there were numerous client files that were stamped with this. It was a stamp that Brofsky and his team hadn't seen before. And it was American Blacklist.
And so he found something like there were, you know, thousands of boxes full of files. And in those files, there were numerous client files that were stamped with this. It was a stamp that Brofsky and his team hadn't seen before. And it was American Blacklist.
And so he found something like there were, you know, thousands of boxes full of files. And in those files, there were numerous client files that were stamped with this. It was a stamp that Brofsky and his team hadn't seen before. And it was American Blacklist.
So this was a designation given to Nazi entities or other Axis powers during the war that the U.S. and its allies were aware of or suspected were financing or trading with the Nazis. And so this is a designation that seems really important to look into.
So this was a designation given to Nazi entities or other Axis powers during the war that the U.S. and its allies were aware of or suspected were financing or trading with the Nazis. And so this is a designation that seems really important to look into.
So this was a designation given to Nazi entities or other Axis powers during the war that the U.S. and its allies were aware of or suspected were financing or trading with the Nazis. And so this is a designation that seems really important to look into.
So they haven't investigated or they haven't fully probed all of these files. That's the work that's going on right now is to understand the significance of the people that had that blacklist, that were on the blacklist, had that stamp on their files, to really understand what they were doing and how that might fit in with the investigation.
So they haven't investigated or they haven't fully probed all of these files. That's the work that's going on right now is to understand the significance of the people that had that blacklist, that were on the blacklist, had that stamp on their files, to really understand what they were doing and how that might fit in with the investigation.